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   Leg·end

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   noun

   • 1. a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated: "the legend of King Arthur" Similar mythsagaepicfolk talefolk storytraditional storytalestoryfairy talenarrativefableromancefolkloreloremythologyfantasyoral historytraditionfolk traditionold wives' talestechnical:mythosmythusinformal:yarn
   • ▪ the story of a saint's life: historical "the mosaics illustrate the Legends of the Saints"
   • 2. an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field: "the man was a living legend" Similar celebritystarsuperstariconfamous persongreatgeniusphenomenonluminarygiantbig nameinformal:celebmegastar
   • 3. an inscription, especially on a coin or medal. Similar captioninscriptiondedicationmottoslogandeviceheadingheadtitlewordingsubtitlesubheadingrubriccolophon
   • ▪ a caption: "a picture of a tiger with the legend, “Go ahead, make my day.”"
   • ▪ the wording on a map or diagram explaining the symbols used: "see legend under Fig. 1" Similar explanationkeycodeciphertable of symbolsguideglossary

   adjective

   • 1. very well known: "his speed and ferocity in attack were legend"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘story of a saint's life’): from Old French legende, from medieval Latin legenda ‘things to be read’, from Latin legere ‘read’. legend (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 17th century.

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   What does Legenda mean?

   • Legenda was used to refer in particular to stories about the lives of saints. Many such stories were written in the Middle Ages, and they often included fiction along with fact. Because of that, when legenda was borrowed into English as legend, it came to mean "a story coming down from the past which may or may not be entirely true."

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   What does it mean if someone is a legend?

   • If you refer to someone as a legend, you mean that they are very famous and admired by a lot of people. A legend is a story that people talk about, concerning people, places, or events that exist or are famous at the present time. The incident has since become a family legend. His frequent brushes with death are the stuff of legend among the press.

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   What is the difference between a myth and a legend?

   • Legends are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern human beings as the main characters and do not necessarily have supernatural origins, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths generally do not. The Brothers Grimm defined legend as " folktale historically grounded".

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   What does legendary mean in English?

   • In its early English-language usage, the word indicated a narrative of an event. The word legendary was originally a noun (introduced in the 1510s) meaning a collection or corpus of legends. This word changed to legendry, and legendary became the adjectival form.

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   A legend is a larger-than-life story that gets passed down from one generation to the next — like the legends of Beowulf, Robin Hood, or even Big Foot.

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